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LPPLIOATIOI FILED XLI. 12. 1906.

Examiner;

Patntd Mar. 30, 1909.

STATES PATENT onirica.

CHARLES A.BEGLE, OF ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO NED G. BEGLE,

i OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

ARTIFICIAL STONE Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented March 30, 1909.

Application filed March 12, 1906. Serial No. 305,636.

To all whom 'Lt may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BEGLE, a citizen of the'United States of America, residing at Ann Arbor, in the county of VVashtenaw and State of Michigan, have invented cert-ain new and useful `Improvements in Artificial Stone, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to the construction of an artificial stone body adapted for use as building material, in the forni of posts. studs, and the like, and consists in the novel construction of the body whereby, in addition to the necessary rigidity to withstand the strains imposed upon it, it possesses sufcient resiliency to receive the nails or other securing devices connecting the parts.

The invention further consists in certain details of construction as will be more fully hereinafter set forth and illustrated.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical central section through an embodiment of my invention, in *this particular instance the body being shown in post forni; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a modification; and Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line -m of Fig 2.

In the manufacture of posts, it may if desired be made either Wholly or in part of the material hereinafter to be described, Fig. l showing the device formed entirely of the material. It is composed of units or pellets, as A, of a relatively soft material, mixed and unite' by a harder. cenientitious substance, indicated at B, the latter serving to give the necessary rigidity to the structure, While the uniformly distributed pellets are adapted to receive with least resistance the nailsfor other devices connecting the parts. l

More particularly, the ellets or units are formed ofa mixture of woo( fiber. aboutsixty per cent., shredded in o ne particles or strands, mixed with preferably about twewpcr `cent. of Portland cement. ten per cent. of ulveriz iron ore. an en per cent. of line y s1 e san is produces a cementitious bodyA avm a, considerable icing sufficiently pliable or nel.. eil. Securing devices.

The mixture "above described is mixed with a sulicient quantity of water to form` a plastic mass, and the balls or units are then formed in any suitable manner .alim-16H. mi

The nits are then mixed ireferably in equal parts with a quafii i oi ceinentitiusmnterial in"pliast.ic` Y OLD cement and preferably7 Wood fiber inthe propor ionof twenty five per cen of the former to ifteen per cent. of the latter and ten per cent. of rock salt. The article that is desired to be mada-1n this instance a post,-is molded to form from the material described and allowed to dry. Subsequently the entire article may be immersed in Water for the purpose of dissolviiior ie sa tl lt and making the cementiilous 1Bind1I`1', ;".`iaterial to a greater or less degree if desired, for the purpose of permitiing more ready penetration through the binder of the securing sertion or strip the nails may be readily driven.

It Will be obvious, from the decription of the invention, that while 4merely a ost has been described as the building article, the body is adapted for use for any building material, and I therefore do not desire to be limited to the post construction described and illustrated.

What I claim is,-

1. An articial stone body composed of units or pellets formed of sliggddefd W od ber, cement, pulverized iron* crean w sand in hewi'"otiistorili, united a mixturevn meinem, fibrous mwaterial and salt-.--"-M---f \2. An artificial stone body, consisting .of units molded of elastic clingable material combined With and united by cementitious binding material relatively harder than the units.

Examnen 3. An artificial stone body, consisting o`f\i Y i i l 916,409

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bodies being mixed with and united b a I In testimony whereof I aix my signature qantity of cementitious binding materia in presence of two Witnesses.

4. An artificial stone body, consisting of CHARLES A REGLE a plurality of independent units formed of 5 elastic clngable material mixed with and Vitnesses:

united by a uantity of cementitious binding J Aims P. BARRY, material inc uding salt as an ingredient. EDWARD R. CULT.

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